Moscow has no intention of indulging into child’s play that would turn the NATO-Russia Council into a battlefield, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
The minister noted that three meetings of the council at the ambassadorial level had already been held. "However, if our counterparts in the alliance keep on saying, ‘Yes, we will gather at the NATO-Russia Council, but we will only discuss Ukraine,’ that will be a continuation of this paranoid aggressive policy. NATO has nothing to do with efforts on the Ukrainian settlement," TASS cited Lavrov as saying.
"If the essence of these ideas is using the NATO-Russia Council for another confrontation, we do not want to indulge in this child’s play," the Russian minister emphasized.
Russia and NATO have begun cautious information exchange on military exercises, Lavrov also stressed.
"There have begun cautious exchanges of information regarding exercises held by Russia and its allies, on the one hand, and by NATO countries, on the other," Lavrov said adding that it was a useful process.
